[COMPLETE] The Pink Fairy book by Andrew Lang - ic

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » December 16th, 2009, 11:18 am

The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (1844-1912) .

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-pink-fairy-book-by-andrew-lang/

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales. We cannot all be young, alas! and pretty, and strong; but nothing prevents us from being kind, and no kind man, woman, or beast or bird, ever comes to anything but good in these oldest fables of the world. (Summary of the Author's Preface by Elliott Miller)

Target completion date: April 30, 2010
Text source (only read from this text!): http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5615/
Type of proof-listening required: Standard PL
IMPORTANT - soloist, please note: in order to limit the amount of languishing projects (and hence the amount of files on our hard-pressed server), we ask that you post an update at least once a month in your project thread, even if you haven't managed to record anything. If we don't hear from you for three months, your project will be opened up to a group project as soon as a Book Coordinator can be found. Files you have completed will be used in this project. If you haven't recorded anything yet, your project will be removed from the forum (contact any admin to have it re-instated).

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MAGIC WINDOW:

(Solo admin)

Soloist - please provide *all of* the following:
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Fairy_Book#Pink_Fairy_Book_.281897.29
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 42
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Y
- Original publication date (if known): 1897
- Year of author's death (note: in some countries copyright is author's death + 50 or 70 years): 1912
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!

Start of recording (Intro)
- "[Section ##] of the Pink Fairy Book. - This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name]"
- Say:
  "The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang. [Story title]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- " [Section ##] of the Pink Fairy Book. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain.
- If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name]"
- Say:
  "The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang. [Story Title]"
End of recording
- At the end of the section, say:
  “End of [Story Title]"
- If you wish, say:
  "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
- At the end of the book, say (in addition):
  "End of The Pink Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang."
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes.
Example filename
pinkfairybook_##_lang.mp3
Example ID3 V2 tags
Title: ## - [Story title]
Artist: Andrew Lang
Album: The Pink Fairy Book
Instructions for soloist: transfer of files (completed recordings)
Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file.
Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
- Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader (when your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread):
  http://upload.librivox.org
  
  (If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin)
  You'll need to select an MC, which for this project is: ic - icyjumbo
- If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.

aravis · Post by **aravis** » December 16th, 2009, 11:20 am

Hi!

If the job is not taken yet, I'd love to DPL!

Elli

Post by **TriciaG** » December 16th, 2009, 11:25 am

My plate is full, so I can't MC. However, you will want to make your file names all the same except for the section number. If you put the name of the story, it'll sort alphabetically instead of how the stories are listed in the book.

I suggest pinkstorybook_##_lang.mp3.

You'll probably also want to say "Section ## of the pink story book" instead of the story name in the first part. In the part of the intro after the disclaimer, you could say "The Pink Story Book by Andrew Lang. [Story title]" as you have written. The reason being that the first part of the intro is for those who are listening along and don't look at the MP3 player. In order for them to know it's the next section, that they're not missing one, they'll need the section number.

Those are my thoughts. An MC should be a long to pick up this project.

icyjumbo · Post by **icyjumbo** » December 16th, 2009, 11:43 am

Tricia was exactly right.

I'll be back soon with a magic window. And I'll add aravis as DPL while I'm preparing the project.

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » December 16th, 2009, 11:45 am

Thanks Everybody, I admit I was a little confused as to how to go about this one, section title wise. it makes a lot more sense now.

Elliott

icyjumbo · Post by **icyjumbo** » December 16th, 2009, 11:57 am

The MW is all set up, Elliott, and you're good to go.

I've made the changes in the first post that Tricia suggested, as they were excellent

Please just check through all of them, to be sure that you know what you're going to say at the beginning of recordings. I also changed the suggested file names.

This should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » December 19th, 2009, 9:22 am

Sweet, looks like we are good to go. Thanks to everybody!

Section 00 is Done, Length 2:59

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ic/pinkfairybook_00_lang.mp3

and Section 01 is done, Length 6:07

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ic/pinkfairybook_01_lang.mp3

aravis · Post by **aravis** » December 19th, 2009, 9:24 am

Great, downloading!

Elli

aravis · Post by **aravis** » December 20th, 2009, 9:21 am

Hi Elliott!

Both chapters are great!

Elli

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » January 6th, 2010, 5:20 am

Section 2 is complete

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ic/pinkfairybook_02_lang.mp3

Length: 7:54

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » January 6th, 2010, 5:35 am

And Section 3 is done

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ic/pinkfairybook_03_lang.mp3

Length: 7:42

aravis · Post by **aravis** » January 6th, 2010, 10:29 am

Hi Elliott!

Downloading!

Elli

Post by **KiltedDragon** » January 7th, 2010, 9:31 pm

Hi guys. Chris, icyjumbo, is away for a bit, and I will be keeping an eye on the MC duties here until he returns. Let me know if you need anything.

Barry

aravis · Post by **aravis** » January 9th, 2010, 11:14 am

Hi Elliott!

Both chapter are great!

Mylantus · Post by **Mylantus** » January 12th, 2010, 5:31 am

Thanks Elli, got another one for you. I never realized how horrifying these stories were. A woman got her throat slit in the last one, and in this one 2 girls get locked in a celler. Sheesh.

Section 4:
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ic/pinkfairybook_04_lang.mp3

Length: 08:48